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title: This time the servants remembered, and released Boris, who came boun… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This time the servants remembered, and released Boris, who came bounding to his young master. Who acts: servants, Boris. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 15

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This time the servants remembered, and released Boris, who came bounding to his young master.

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**Who acts:** servants, Boris · **What happens:** remember, release, come, bound · **To what, where:** Boris, young master

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, Boris), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:33:15
# text = This time the servants remembered, and released Boris, who came bounding to his young master.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	released	release	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	Boris	Boris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | the servants |  |  |  | time |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **release** | past | the servants *not said here* | Boris |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer boris=Source |
| 3 | **come** | past | Boris |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bound** | gerund | Boris *not said here* |  |  | Boris's young master |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to master=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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